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Physical-access always means "game over" unless full-disk encryption is used.

• ygra 12y ago
  In this case FDE won't help, right? As the OS already can read the hard drive during the repair phase (or otherwise can't get that far).
  • DangerousPie 12y ago
    It looks like you can only launch the repair once you have decrypted the hard drive [1]. [1] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/running-windows-7-repair-on-a-bitlocker-encrypted/89e2cae0-7d49-4cc4-981e-3776701bbf4b http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-s...
• DanBlake 12y ago
  You can do a entire dump of the HD while its turned on and save it to a backup. Then you can restore the backup back to the initial HD